Acute care hospitals such as OMC are reimbursed an average of 85 percent of the cost of delivering services to Medicare and Medicaid patients, said Washington State Hospital Association spokeswoman Mary Kay Clunies-Ross.

The hospital district also operates Olympic Medical Physicians, Olympic Medical Cancer Center and Olympic Medical Home Health, which also serves West Jefferson County.

The district is the fourth largest public hospital district in terms of revenue in the state of Washington, according to the Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts.

“I am not complaining about what I make, but I am at the low end of the [salary] range,” said Lewis, the hospital district's former chief financial officer.

“I am obviously well compensated.”

Hospital commissioners gave Lewis a $16,000 pay hike — a 10 percent increase — in June 2012, his first raise since being promoted to interim CEO in December 2006 and permanent CEO in January 2007.

“There were some people that were incensed with him getting a raise,” Commissioner John Miles recalled.

“I think he deserved a bigger raise, but we were sensitive to what people might think.”

Crockett, who had the same salary in 2010 and 2011, is a retired Army colonel with 30 years of service.

He voluntarily did not take raises in 2011 and 2012 and also has turned down at least two other raises during his 14-year tenure as the port's executive director, he said.

His salary would be $10,000 or $12,000 more if he had taken the raises, he said.

“Personally, I'm well off,” he said.

“You always want to be considered [to be] at least as good as your peers, and of course, I think I am, but again, [the salary] really doesn't bother me because of my circumstances with the other retirement.”

Clallam Transit

General Manager Terry Weed

■ 2012 salary: $104,030.

■ 2013 salary: $104,030.

■ Compensation package: $400 a month car allowance.

■ 2013 budget (operations and capital projects): $13.4 million.

■ Number of full-time-equivalent employees: 85-90.

Weed, in his 33rd year as a Clallam Transit employee — he began as a dispatcher-supervisor — is retiring later this summer after being general manager for eight years.

The salary range for his successor is expected to be $85,000-$104,000.

Weed's last raise was in 2010.

Clallam Transit buses had a 2012 fixed-route ridership of 1 million passenger trips, including paratransit service, and spend 60,000 fixed-route hours a year on the road.

Weed said he believes his salary is fair.

“We have done some work in comparing management salaries in the transit industry around the state,” he said.

“Generally, those wages are driven by budget, employee count, and to a lesser extent, hours of service on the road.”

A former Jefferson County Superior Court clerk and court facilitator, Rubert began at Jefferson Transit as a driver in 2005 and was operations manager when she was hired as general manager in August 2011.

Jefferson Transit buses had a 2012 fixed-route ridership of 266,165 passenger trips and spend 16,476 fixed-route hours a year on the road.

Her salary is “fair for the budget that we have and the revenue we have in our community,” Rubert said.

“I feel like it's comparable to what Jefferson Transit can afford.”

Peninsula College

President Luke Robins

■ 2011-2012 salary (Thomas Keegan): $204,434.

■ 2012-2013 salary (Luke Robins): $175,000.

■ Full-time employees: 153, not including 300 to 400 who are part-time.

■ Full-time equivalent students: 2,507.

■ 2011-2013 budget (operations and capital): $19.7 million.

Peninsula College is based in Port Angeles and also has extension sites in Forks, Port Townsend and Port Hadlock.

Robins succeeded Thomas Keegan, who headed the college for 10 years and who left to head his alma mater, Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon.

“Salaries run from probably a high of around $210,00 to a low of $135,000 to $140,000, so I'm roughly in the middle,” said Robins, the former chancellor of Louisiana Delta Community College in Monroe, La.

Robins' contract, which runs through June 2015, has no automatic longevity-related step increases, and he is evaluated by the college board of trustees every year for possible pay increases.

Robins said he earned about $150,000 at his prior job as chancellor of Louisiana Delta Community College, but also received a housing a car allowance, which he doesn't get running Peninsula College.

His salary “is equitable and within the range of community colleges in the state,” he said.

“It comes out about where it needs to.”

Port Angeles School District

Superintendent Jane Pryne

■ 2011-2012 school year: $138,659.

■ 2012-2013 school year: $141,432.

■ Percentage increase: 2 percent.

■ Compensation package: Includes $550 monthly car allowance.

■ 2012-2013 budget (operations and capital projects): $37.9 million.

■ Number of full-time-equivalent employees: 357.

■ Number of full-time-equivalent students: 3,628.

Pryne received a longevity-related step increase for the 2012-2013 school year.

“There are a lot of responsibilities for this job,” Pryne said, adding her salary is average among school districts the size of Port Angeles.

District facilities include a skills center attended by students from five school districts including Port Townsend, and a cosmetology school in Port Hadlock.

“We have an almost $37 million [operations] budget, and we have to be fiscally responsible.

“We are a public entity.”

Pryne has been the Port Angeles school superintendent since July 2009.

Downs made $123,000 in the 2010-2011 school year, but he and other administrators took voluntary pay cuts of 3 percent to 4 percent for 2011-2012, while the teaching staff lost three staff development days, he said.

The Chimacum School District had to make cuts greater than the 1.9 percent that affected districts statewide.

Downs was assistant superintendent of Woodland School District north of Vancouver, Wash., before taking the Chimacum job.

The larger the school district, the larger the superintendent's paycheck — and the greater the responsibility, Downs said.

The Crescent School Board hired a consultant who helped determine a salary range that was competitive with other districts of similar size, School Board President Susan Hopper said.

Tom Anderson, Mork's predecessor, refused raises during a time the district was cutting the budget.

Mork also serves as principal of the school district's elementary, middle and high school, and oversees the Olympic Peninsula HomeConnection program, a home-school-related teaching partnership with parents from Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties.

He said he is satisfied with his salary.

“I don't think if someone was in the business for the money that they would want to be superintendent, because it's not for everybody, and one really has to enjoy the work.”